Come to Stillness: Take a few minutes to allow your mind and heart to
be still before God.
Opening Prayer: Speak, O Lord, as we come to You, to receive
the food of Your holy word. Take Your
truth, plant it deep in us; shape and fashion us in Your likeness, that the
light of Christ might be seen today, in our acts of love and our deeds of
faith. Speak, O Lord, and fulfill in us
all your purposes, for Your glory. (Speak O Lord by Stuart
Townend, Keith Getty)
Scripture Reading for the Day: 1 Samuel 3:1-21
Reading for Reflection:
Every once in a while,
life can be very eloquent. You can go
along from day to day not noticing very much, not seeing or hearing very much,
and then all the sudden, when you least expect it very often, something speaks
to you with such power that it catches you off guard, makes you listen whether
you want to or not. Something speaks to
you out of your own life with such directness that it is as if it calls you by
name and forces you to look where you have not had the heart to look before, to
hear something that maybe for years you have not had the wit or the courage to
hear. (A Room Called Remember
by Frederick Buechner)
Reflection and Listening: silent and written
Prayer: for the church, for others, for myself
Prayer: for the church, for others, for myself
Closing Prayer: Lord, teach me to listen. The times are noisy and my ears are weary
with the thousand raucous sounds which continuously assault them. Give me the spirit of the boy Samuel when he
said to Thee, “Speak, for thy servant heareth.”
Let me hear Thee speaking in my heart.
Let me get used to the sound of Thy voice, that its tones may be
familiar when the sounds of earth die away and the only sound will be the music
of Thy speaking voice. Amen. (The Pursuit of God by A. W.
Tozer)
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